{"id":12446,"date":"2014-12-12T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=6929"},"modified":"2014-12-12T17:58:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:58:48","slug":"simple-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/simple-is-hard.html","title":{"rendered":"Simple is Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cartoon-sure-it-looks-complicated.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6930\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cartoon-sure-it-looks-complicated-small.jpg?resize=608%2C534&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"cartoon sure it looks complicated small\" width=\"608\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is this what your IT infrastructure looks like?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/the-way-forward-is-simple.html\" target=\"_blank\">complexity is holding back innovation<\/a>. But we all know that <a href=\"http:\/\/global.sap.com\/campaigns\/digitalhub-runsimple\/manifesto\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">simple is hard<\/a>. The easiest way forward is to move to new, simpler business applications like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/pc\/tech\/cloud\/software\/cloud-erp-finance-management\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">SAP Simple Finance<\/a>. Here&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.saphana.com\/2014\/09\/30\/how-simple-finance-removes-redundancy-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">what&#8217;s different about it<\/a>, some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zdY_1GYBedU\" target=\"_blank\">explanations from the folks that thought it up<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lOfJlWN5aow#t=512\" target=\"_blank\">a live demonstration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complexity is holding back innovation. But simple is hard. Here&#8217;s an example of how to move forward. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[100,173,200,204,564,618,911,916,968,969],"class_list":["post-12446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartoons","tag-analytics","tag-big-data","tag-business-applications","tag-business-intelligence","tag-hard","tag-innovation","tag-sap","tag-sap-hana","tag-simple","tag-simple-finance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/cartoon-sure-it-looks-complicated-small-2.jpg?fit=608%2C534&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3eK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}